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boxcar

[ boks-kahr ]

noun

  1. Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car.
  2. boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.


adjective

  1. Informal. extremely or disproportionately large:

    The business had boxcar profits during its first year.

boxcar

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noun

  1. a closed railway freight van
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of boxcar1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; box 1 + car 1
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After a short walk through the woods they spotted boxcars.

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On a hotel rooftop in Hollywood, facing the glitterati tucked into the hills, Sierra Ferrell explained how to pack for a clandestine ride in a boxcar.

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By summer, all but two families had departed their flooded homes and were living in boxcars or makeshift houses above the rising waterline.

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Animals in circuses are hauled across the country in poorly ventilated trailers and boxcars for up to 50 weeks a year in all kinds of extreme weather.

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Behind them were tens of thousands of Venezuelans and other migrants, trekking across the Darien Gap and into Central America, riding atop boxcars through Mexico, on their way.

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